Wedding Recap: The Invitation.

I have always been an admirer of a good piece of stationery. I knew going into the planning process this would be a detail near and dear to my heart. I wanted our invitations to be something that people remembered, and I wanted to incorporate details from the invitation throughout the wedding. Pretty high expectations, right? I was a bit stressed about bringing my vision to life until I met Emily of Paper Moss.  The minute I started to explain what I was looking for, she got it and then some. The creative process began with me bringing a few scrap pieces of paper, an inspiration board and my lofty ideas - and it ended with something even better than what was floating around in my head.

So let's begin with our Save the Date.  With the Ocean House being such a historic and significant place {well, significant to Andrew & I}, I wanted to set that tone from the beginning. We reached out to the Ocean House for actual vintage postcards or images and used those for the design. We also started to bring in hints of what's to come {note the Del's stamp}, and in most of the paper goods I played with the traditional wording - I really wanted everything to have our "voice".

Then came the heart of the suite - the invitation. Oh how I wish each of you could hold these puppies because they will make your paper-loving heart leap. They are letterpressed greatness, and I am happy just thinking about them again.

{Leila Brewster Photography}

I wanted something traditional, but different.  Sounds impossible, right? I knew I wanted a clean white front with nice font changes, but I wanted there to be something exciting on the back.  So Emily took my tangent and ran with it. She incorporated that beautiful letterpressed pattern {seen above on the flap of the RSVP card} throughout the suite and on the back of the invitation.  When you hold it in your hand you feeeeelllll the letterpress and all your troubles go away.

I also wanted something a bit different to hold the RSVP card and map of Watch Hill {which we drew and brought to life} so Emily thought to bring in the muslin bag on the inspiration board, and I love her for that.

She also created two monograms for us - the Adirondack chair to eventually tie into the guestbook and venue and then the simpler A & A which we ran with throughout the wedding weekend. For some reason, I knew I wanted two Adirondack chairs in our monogram, don't ask me why - my brain is just stuck on weird things, but I think it's fitting and symbolic.  And low and behold, it looks good in a monogram! I also love typography, in particular ampersands, so we were sure to give that obsession a shout out.

I cannot speak highly enough of Paper Moss - ladies, you now have a fan for life.  The best part is - there is SO much more to come today, because let me just let you in on a little secret - the paper by no means stopped here.